Resources

This initiative compiles materials that help STEM education leaders create improvements in their classrooms, transform institutions, and advance research.
Review our staff picks for timely resources related to pressing issues or use the search and categorization features to browse research, reports, and other materials.

Staff Picks

  • Characterizing Student Perspectives on Departmental Culture: The Student DELTA Survey

    Traditional Student Experience MetricsNational reports have revealed that although undergraduate education has undergone significant reform, students are not g…

  • The Value of Community Colleges: Bridging Gaps and Building Pathways to Increase Student Success

    (Video credit: CCC Marcom)Innovative Evidence-based Strategies to Disrupt the Current Community College NarrativeI was honored to be invited to talk at a confe…

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  • Making Computation Normal Across the Physics Curriculum at IUPUI

    NeedThis project addresses a critical need: updating the physics curriculum to bring our students’ learning in line with the way physics is practiced, and to e…

  • Making NMR Resonate With Students: Integrating NMR Into the Undergraduate Science Curriculum

    Need: Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is an important tool in the modern STEM workforce that uses the properties of atomic nuclei in a magnetic field to provi…

  • Math Attitudes in Undergraduate Students Enrolled in Introductory Geoscience Courses

    Need: Math attitudes are intricately related to success in science, but this relationship has not been explored in geoscience. To recruit, retain, and graduate…

  • Metacognition and Misconceptions: Using Web-Based Writing Exercises in Gateway STEM Courses

    NEED: Writing exercises have been used to detect student misconceptions regarding course content across a variety of STEM disciplines. Further, writing exercis…

  • Improving Solid Mechanics Education using Multi-Scale Material Characterization and Visualization

    Undergraduate solid mechanics courses can assist students to understand how materials deform under various loading conditions. Additionally, solid mechanics is…

  • Improving Student Learning in Power Engineering – The Use of Concept Maps as Evaluation Tool

    Need: Today’s electric power grid is an intelligent and interconnected system, characterized by larger amount of renewable and distributed energy resources, sm…

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